Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. - 480 pp.
In 1992, David C. Cassidy's groundbreaking biography of Weer Heisenberg, "Uncertainty, " was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg's role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In "Beyond Uncertainty, " Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist's personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.
""Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb" is an excellent work of scholarship and makes Heisenberg's work and life accessible to the general reader, while remaining important and interesting for the historian and scientist. Along with Weher von Braun, Heisenberg's career under Hitler represents perhaps the best twentieth-century example of a faustian bargain with evil for the advancement of knowledge and science. Cassidy tells this story with nuance and passion. "-Mark Walker, author of "Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb".
David C. Cassidy is the author of "J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, " "Einstein and Our World, " and "Uncertainty. " Professor of natural sciences at Hofstra University, he has served as associate editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. " He is the only author to have received both the Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics and the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society for the same book ("Uncertainty").
In 1992, David C. Cassidy's groundbreaking biography of Weer Heisenberg, "Uncertainty, " was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg's role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In "Beyond Uncertainty, " Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist's personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.
""Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb" is an excellent work of scholarship and makes Heisenberg's work and life accessible to the general reader, while remaining important and interesting for the historian and scientist. Along with Weher von Braun, Heisenberg's career under Hitler represents perhaps the best twentieth-century example of a faustian bargain with evil for the advancement of knowledge and science. Cassidy tells this story with nuance and passion. "-Mark Walker, author of "Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb".
David C. Cassidy is the author of "J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, " "Einstein and Our World, " and "Uncertainty. " Professor of natural sciences at Hofstra University, he has served as associate editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. " He is the only author to have received both the Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics and the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society for the same book ("Uncertainty").